Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“...I think one shouldn't pussyfoot, and just say that you write the stuff that you would like to read. So you write… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Whatever junk novels were, however they worked, they were close to therapy, and airports were close to therapy. They both belonged to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
